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Left Out? Can the Completion Movement Reach Students with Intellectual Disabilities
Discouraged by data showing that nearly 42 percent of college students failed to earn degrees within six years, policymakers, institutional leaders, and practitioners are turning their attention to closing completion gaps that impact nearly every facet of higher education.
February 3, 2020
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College Autism Network Partners with NASPA to Expand Reach
The College Autism Network (CAN), a nonprofit founded by a Florida State University associate professor, will soon partner with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), hoping to expand its reach and support more college students with autism. Associate professor of higher education Dr. Bradley Cox founded the nonprofit in 2016 to address the […]
December 3, 2019
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Tw(y)ce-Exceptional: Gifted Black Males in P-12 Education
The call from my college classmate was all too familiar—it started with “he’s super smart, but he struggles in some areas.” As a researcher and scholar who writes about the experiences of academically gifted Black males across the P-20 educational continuum, I welcomed this inquiry from my college classmate.
October 18, 2019
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College of Saint Rose Receives Donation to Train Educators
The College of Saint Rose Thelma P. Lally School of Education recently received a $1.1 million gift to train educators to help children with disabilities and mental health needs. As part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Project Targeting Healthy Resiliency in Vested Educators (THRIVE), the five-year grant will cover the majority of the tuition […]
October 17, 2019
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Access as Model: How Students with Intellectual Disabilities Can Improve Higher Education
If higher education programs for people with intellectual disabilities are to work to the fullest extent, students should not be merely included. Higher education should change to mark their valued presence.
September 13, 2019
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Employability and College Graduates with Disabilities
Finding that first job after graduating college is difficult, to say the least, but for those with a disability the challenge is even greater. Employability is greater if one earns a bachelor’s degree; this is especially true for persons with a disability.
August 5, 2019
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UWF Mechanical Engineering ‘ArgoTots’ Program Helps Kids With Limited Mobility
Six University of West Florida mechanical engineering students recently finished the first-modified vehicle of the ArgoTots program, which helps young children who experience limited mobility. The vehicle was designed for four-year-old Jack Carroll, who was born prematurely and has a form of cerebral palsy.
August 1, 2019
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Students Lead Efforts to Boost Employment of Autistic Young Adults
By developing an employer manual and a series of training sessions, MERISTEM students who are part of an advocacy group in California aim to lower the high unemployment rates among young adults with autism spectrum disorder.
July 13, 2019
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FSU Professors Receive IES Grants to Advance Special Education Research
The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) has awarded Early Career grants to Drs. Laura Steacy and Jenny Root, who are both assistant professors of special education in the Florida State University College of Education. Steacy and Root will receive $500,000 each over a four-year period to research ways to support students with learning disabilities. Steacy’s […]
May 15, 2019
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Lauded Special Olympics Program To Continue with Federal Funding
Unified Champion Schools, a Special Olympics educational program that has been saved from the federal fiscal chopping block, is known as an initiative whose benefits extend beyond the intellectually disabled.
March 29, 2019
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Disability Rights Attorney Carrie Ann Lucas Dies at 47
Nationally known disability rights attorney Carrie Ann Lucas, has died. She was 47 years old. “[Lucas] died after an arbitrary denial from an insurance company caused a plethora of health problems, exacerbating her disabilities and eventually leading to her premature death,” her family and friends wrote in a Facebook post on Lucas’ page. The ultimate […]
February 26, 2019
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Candidates of Size – Highlighting Sizeism in Job Searches
Fatphobia, also known as anti-fat bias and sizeism, continues to engender difficult experiences for our students and our colleagues and it manifests in many ways, including our job search processes.
February 11, 2019
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On Being a Professor with Autism, and Traveling the World to Destigmatize It
People on the autism spectrum have similar characteristics no matter their nationality or race. However, there are great differences in societal awareness, acceptance and appreciation of people on the autism spectrum throughout the world.
January 17, 2019
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HBCU Websites Must Adhere to American with Disabilities Act Guidelines
Over the next few years schools that fail to address whether their websites and other tools are consistent with ADA guidelines will encounter additional challenges. This is important considering that HBCUs are traditionally underfunded.
January 7, 2019
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CSUN Explorers Program to Benefit People with Disabilities
California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will begin a two-year program starting this fall called CSUN Explorers in hopes of increasing the employability and independence of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. CSUN Explorers is a postsecondary program accessible through the university’s Tseng College. Individuals in the program will not be earning a degree, but will […]
August 8, 2018
Panel Dissects Role of Suspensions in School-To-Prison Pipeline
Statistics abounded Wednesday evening during a panel discussion titled “School to Prison Pipeline: Decriminalizing Public Education” co-sponsored by New America, the National Black Child Development Institute and the Greater Washington Urban League,
May 17, 2018
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N.C. State Reaches Settlement With Student Over Support Cat
RALEIGH, N.C. — A university in North Carolina has reached a settlement to allow a student to keep a cat she uses as an emotional support animal in her dorm room. Legal Aid of North Carolina said that North Carolina State University also agreed to train staff on the federal Fair Housing Act and pay […]
October 12, 2017
Students With Disabilities: We Want Our Fair Chance at College
Students with disabilities deserve access to higher education to achieve their dreams and goals like everyone else. That is the message several panelists delivered Thursday at a session on the Improving Access to Higher Education Act.
July 13, 2017
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